This Friday, March 6, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will finally make its approach to dwarf planet Ceres after launching seven years ago. It will be the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial objects.

NASA's MESSENGER, finishing up a historic journey to Mercury, is expected to end its decade-long mission this month.

SpaceX Dragon Inflight Abort

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Sometime this month, SpaceX's Dragon is scheduled to abort from Falcon 9 in order to demonstrate its escape system before landing off the coast of California.

Astronauts begin first full year on ISS

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will begin a one-year spaceflight, living in space longer than any other astronauts in history.

The Large Hadron Collider turns back on

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The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is set to be turned on again sometime this month after a two-year break. It is expected to make many discoveries about our unseen world, possibly even the direct detection of dark matter.